He and I spoke privately about it before he left. He simply got tired of correcting the lies about the Church over and over again. Same lies about the same things over and over. I know that his wife occasionally comes on, but I don't believe that he even monitors FR any more, or if he does, it is very infrequent.
The information in your post bears out my feelings about religious threads on FR.
I'm from the class of '98 and for every year I've been here I've watched with almost hypnotic horror the hate, divisiveness, name-calling, bigotry, ousters, departures and obsessiveness engendered by the religious threads. I have seen with incredulity anti-and pro-Morman threads rage on almost daily during the decade-plus I've been her, threads forever driven by seemingly-obsessed folks on both sides. Pro-and-anti-Catholic threads follow in a close second.
Attack, attack!
A special religion-debate category is the only thing I feel is absolutely out-of-place on FR. I abhor what is does to and by freepers in the name of religious "debate". A couple years ago, a "wolf pack" of adherents actually roamed the religious threads attacking those with a certain view, doing it with impunity, and the "abuse" button became the only recourse.
I'm always a jealous adherent and "protector" of the image of FR. The divisive, obsessive, venom-filled content that fill the religious threads appalls me as a proud freeper. Since continuation of the ugly, never-ending religious skirmishes and battles apparently are permanently established as an integral part of FR under management decision, the venom, fights, ugliness and obsessiveness of those who actually appear to live and thrive on attacking other religions and their adherents will undoubtedly continue to entrance and fascinate readers here, like watching train wrecks.
It also repels others.
Of course, no one has to participate or even read the threads, and I suspect many if not most don't because of the eye-glazing nastiness and snarky babble.
Religious NEWS is an integral part of the world scene today. Such NEWS can and must be disseminated and discussed, of course. Whether or not the subject can be handled in a better, less divisive and fractious way on FR is above my pay grade. There's a distinction between debating religious news and the discussions degenerating into ugly personal attacks on posters and their personal faiths.
But, to further reply to your post, Mark, I suspect that FR's religious battlefields have resulted in not a few wounded and permanently departed like your freeper friend.......casualties of the endless, hateful, divisive religious wars on this forum.
Leni
I see.
If it’s public knowledge on fr, what is his wife’s freeper name?